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Home > 11/9/09

Dawud Gonzalez Reads from “San Quentin Prison” by David J. Lista

 

Dawud Gonzalez reads from “San Quentin Prison” by David J. Lista at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. Read the excerpt below.

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April 7, 2009

… I am a man in blue. I am a man with the blues. I exist in blackness but live in the blues. I was not always blue or black, blues or blackness. But here I am in blue therefore I am in darkness. I yearn for the light. I grope in the darkness stretching out to grasp a thin strand of brightness in the distance ahead. I hope only to stretch myself to some how reach the light …some day soon bathe himself in light and celebrate the brightness of a new day shrouded in the brilliance of color …

 


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